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Patent filing claims solar energy 'Breakthrough'

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Greg Gordon - May. 10 (News Report) - WASHINGTON — In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could blunt global warming.

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Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Steven Hseih - Apr. 10 (News Report) - The documents also provide a glimpse into the Obama administration’s seemingly thin rationale for executing some attacks. Contrary to claims of the CIA program’s precision and “ exceedingly rare” civilian casualties, the intelligence reports proves that “drone operators weren’t always certain who they were killing.” McClatchy’s report notes that several drone victims “died in what appeared to be signature strikes,” or attacks carried out based on a “signature” pattern of behavior, rather than a known identity.

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Israelis puzzle over mysterious death of Mossad’s ‘Prisoner X’ Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/13/182979/israelis-puzzle-over-mysterious.html#storylink=cpy

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Frenkel - Feb. 15 (News Report) - Zygier was kept in a cell known as Wing 15 that had been designed for Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Ari Shamay, a lawyer for Amir who visited him once in the cell, described it as a "four-by-four room, with next to nothing inside but a bed, shower and toilet." Cameras were fixed on the room and monitored 24 hours a day. Reports in Israeli newspapers have said the room had special sensors that monitored temperature and even heartbeat, though Israeli officials wouldn’t confirm those details. Israeli human rights groups have begun asking how, under those conditions, a prisoner manages to fashion a noose and hang himself before guards are able to intervene. On Wednesday, Israeli blogs speculated that the story of Zygier’s suicide was yet another cover-up, designed to disguise a more gruesome death

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Proposed trans-Pacific trade deal ignites fears of job losses

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - By Rob Hotakainen - Sep. 19 (Special Report) - "It's NAFTA on steroids in terms of its geographic scope, its economic scope and the new powers it gives to corporations," said Arthur Stamoulis, a critic of the trade deal and executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a coalition that includes labor and environmental groups.

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The math on Romney's tax claim doesn't tell whole story

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

seattletimes.com - Sep. 19 (News Analysis) - "So it's not that they're not paying any taxes," Williams said. "It's just that they're not paying federal income taxes." The reason, he said, is that more than 38 million, or roughly half of the 76 million households that paid no income taxes last year, simply didn't earn enough to have a tax liability under the current tax code. In a July 2011 blog post, Williams cited as an example a married couple with two children who earn less than $26,400. "Their $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700 each reduce their taxable income to zero," he wrote.

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Why was Zimmerman's cousin afraid of him?

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Frances Robles - Jul. 17 (News) - The man charged with the murder of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, George Zimmerman has now been accused of molesting his younger cousin. She kept her accusations to herself until now because she was afraid of him, she ...

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N.C. air transport company Aero has role in extraordinary rendition, report says | McClatchy

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - Jan. 23 (News) - With fresh ammunition from a University of North Carolina law school report, activists renewed their call Thursday for state officials to take legal action against Aero Contractors Ltd.

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Shale boom may help lead U.S. to energy independence

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Kevin G.Hall - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - The United States could pass its 1970s peak as an oil-and-gas producer in less than a decade with the help of a shale formation in Pennsylvania.

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Perry ad in Iowa accuses Obama of 'war on religion'

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Cain's tax cut would give thousands back to the rich

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Steven Thomma - Oct. 18 (News) - Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would give every American making more than $1 million an average tax cut of $455,000, according to a new independent analysis. All Americans with incomes above $200,000 would get tax cuts under the Republican presidential candidate’s dramatic proposal, according to the analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint effort of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, both respected center-left policy-research centers. At the same time, those with incomes below $200,000 _ 84 percent of taxpayers _ would see their taxes increase under the Cain plan, according to the analysis, which is the first to look at precisely what would happen to different incomes under the proposal.

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WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Matthew Schofield - Sep. 01 (News Report) - A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

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U.S. military ready to buy affordable, homegrown jet biofuels | McClatchy

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Renee Schoof - Jun. 20 (News Report) - The challenge for the new industry is to find money to ramp up from nearly zero today. The Department of Defense has called for biofuels that don't displace food, don't use up fresh water, yield less greenhouse-gas pollution than conventional fuels and cost the same. National security is the main reason to move off oil dependence, according to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. Mabus ordered the Navy to get ready to use alternative energy for half of its power at sea and on shore by 2020. That would require more than 300 million gallons of biofuels a year, for blending with conventional fuel. The Air Force aims to fly on a 50-50 blend of biofuels and conventional fuel by 2016, an annual requirement of 400 million gallons.

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$17M 'Grow Your Own Teachers' Program Yields Just 43 Educators

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Education Week - By Hannah Hess - Jun. 17 (News Report) - Illinois has invested more than $17 million to recruit parents, classroom aides and other school employees from low-income communities for a teacher certification program aimed at replenishing the supply of teachers in some of its most hard-to-staff schools. But after five years, the push to harvest homegrown educators has yielded only 43 teachers.

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Poll: Public already losing patience with new Congress

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By David Lightman - Mar. 20 (News Analysis) - Once again, the public is getting increasingly disgusted with Washington. It sees a failure to adopt remedies for even the most basic, pressing issues of the day, as Congress struggles ...

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Why Employee Pensions Aren't Bankrupting States

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Kevin G. Hall - Mar. 08 (News Analysis) - From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers. However, that widespread perception doesn't match reality.

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DeMint throws new wrench into legislative process

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By James Rosen - Mar. 05 (News) - A bloc of Senate conservatives, led by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, flexed their muscles Thursday, pledging to block any bill they alone deem wasteful or unconstitutional.

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How Southern Sudan's 'ticking time bomb' was defused

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Alan Boswell - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - If it were held properly, the Sudanese government in the north faced the certain loss of not just a third of its land but also 80 percent of its oil. If the vote were blocked, or even delayed, conflict probably would erupt.

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Something GOP doesn't want to cut: Funding for NASCAR | McClatchy

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Barbara Barrett - Feb. 25 (News) - McCollum said it doesn't make sense to keep the benefits for NASCAR teams and track owners when other cuts are being made to community health care, programs for homeless veterans and Head Start. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/25/109477/something-gop-doesnt-want-to-cut.html#ixzz1F1a7bZUQ McCollum said it doesn't make sense to keep the benefits for NASCAR teams and track owners when other cuts are being made to community health care, programs for homeless veterans and Head Start. "It's an earmark," she said. North Carolina Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry disagrees. His Charlotte-area district is home to half the NASCAR teams.

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Obama assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Marisa Taylor - Feb. 11 (News Report) - The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/11/108562/obama-assertion-fbi-can-get-phone.html#ixzz1Dlu8N34K

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Is Mexico at war? Conflict prompts linguistic debate

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - Feb. 04 - MEXICO CITY — Over a 48-hour period this week, gangsters tossed grenades, torched buses, set up roadblocks and strafed police units in Mexico's second and third largest cities.

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How Congress helped thwart Obama's plan to close Guantanamo

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Carol Rosenburg - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Two years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the closure of the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by the website WikiLeaks is providing new information about why that effort failed.

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How the Fed let small banks take on too much debt, then fail

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall - Dec. 22 (Investigative Report) - ...the Fed rejected calls from one of the nation's top banking regulators, a professional accounting board and the Fed's own staff for curbs on the banks' use of special debt securities

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Videotaped killing of grieving Mexican mother stirs a nation

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - Dec. 18 (News Report) - A mother campaigning to bring the confessed killer of her 16-year-old daughter to justice was herself gunned down Thursday night in view of a closed circuit television camera, leaving images that shocked Mexicans over the impunity of the killers.

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Mexican cartels amass better arsenals, mostly bought in U.S.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Tim Johnson - Nov. 18 (News Report) - As cartels build up their weapons stocks, a bloody new phase unfolds in a drug war that's already left nearly 30,000 victims since late 2006. "They are looking for the highest caliber, highest capacity weapon they can, because they are at war with the military" ....

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Wall Street quietly seeks to undo new financial rules

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Kevin G. Hall - Nov. 16 (News Report) - "Taken all together, these are all proposals that were considered (by Congress) and rejected . . ." Through Republican lawmakers who will soon hold leadership positions in the House of Representatives, big banks are backing proposals that could lead to its being defunded or subject to conditions that weaken it.

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